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"What about that handsome stranger over there?"
Matchmaker Café in New York City's Financial District serves up a little something extra for its patrons – a shot at finding love. Less than a month old, the pop-up café lets single customers browse potential dating matches on an iPad as they leisurely sip their lattes. It's also the physical outpost for the service's online dating app, which launched last November and offers in-person introductions by a matchmaker, according to DNAinfo.
Like another dating service that launched in the spring of 2012, Coffee Meets Bagel, the Matchmaker dating app uses people's Facebook profiles to suggest potential dates. The difference? Matchmaker has an actual, albeit temporary, coffee stand staffed with friendly baristas who will let you use their iPad to browse other singles in the area, then help arrange dates. Until Labor Day, when the pop-up cafe closes, guests can pay $5 for three phone introductions or $10 for ten. They can also pay for a subscription to the Matchmaker Cafe app, which has more than 3,000 members.
(MORE: Perk Up: Yawn-Activated Coffee Machine)
"There's nothing like real human connection," Slotnick told the New York Post. "You can have all of the online stuff, and technology does make it much more efficient to connect — but ultimately you have to meet."
Slotnick believes the café can differentiate itself from competitors because there's already a "vetted party" as the middleman. She's already a pro at blending dating and coffee shops: She founded Drip Cafe on Manhattan's Upper West Side in 1996, which let customers search physical binders filled with dating profiles. Once guests found someone they wanted to meet, the cafe would help arrange a meeting for a small fee.
(MORE: Coffee Drinking Linked With Lower Risk of Fatal Prostate Cancer)
So far, the pop-up dating cafe has gotten mixed reactions. Megan Zilis, a 29-year-old account executive, said, "I would be open to this only if the barista was a close friend and all the other café patrons were also close friends." Meanwhile, Sharon Nord, a 56-year-old customer, told the Post that she was enthusiastic about the service. "It seems like they have a good list of people," she says, "and really, it's another way to meet people."
It also makes it really easy to decide where to meet for coffee.

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Warren Buffett says he's absolutely "fine" with President Obama calling the new plan to establish a minimum tax rate for individuals making more than $1 million a year the "Buffett Rule."
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Buffett has long argued that the wealthiest Americans tend to pay a smaller portion of their income in federal taxes than middle income earners because some millionaires and billionaires often get much of their income from capital gains that are taxed at a lower rate than basic wages. Buffett has argued that the 'billionaire-friendly Congress' has coddled the wealthy and that that practice should end.
While the new Buffett rule is still just a proposal, political watchers have indicated it would face stiff Republican opposition. Some Republican lawmakers say it would discourage investment. Buffett has long argued that the rich don't pay their fair share in taxes, often being held to a 15% tax rate from capital gains vs. the 35-39% rate lower income earners get hit with on their basic wages.
Reports say the administration indicates the proposal would replace the alternative minimum tax, created years ago to ensure the wealthiest did not dodge paying income taxes. However, over the years, the AMT swamped many middle class taxpayers. The administration indicates the Buffett Rule would affect a much smaller group-- those making above the threshold $1 million.
When asked if he's heard complaints or gotten friendly jabs from his wealthy friends about the Buffett Rule, the Oracle of Omaha quipped to FOX Business, "Well, I've employed a food taster but other than that...."


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Each sample is divided in days and bi-hourly sections. The load can then be assessed daily and bi-hourly. Pollen is determined and counted on the slide by the means of a light microscope. Pollen counts are transformed into pollen concentrations for comparability. Finally we attain values in pollen per m3 of air. Those values are used for the pollen forecast, the graphs, models and many more services here.


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When an inspector enters your job site to perform an inspection, the first place they are trained to look is the permit box. Usually, this is as far as they need to go to find a problem. Record keeping violations continually rank among the top offenses on construction sites in the state of Georgia and can carry a fine as large as $2,500 per violation, per day. Fines like these can add up quickly and cripple a company's ability to turn a profit on a job. Let's take a look at what you need to have available on site at all times.
"The primary permittee shall retain the following records at the construction site or the records shall be readily available at a designated alternate location from commencement of construction until such time as a NOT is submitted in accordance with Part VI." – Part IV.F.1, GAR 100003
1. Notice of Intent (NOI) & Proof of Submittal
First, remember that your notice of intent needs to be filed via certified mail with return receipt at least 14 days prior to any type of construction activity on your job site. This form can be found on the GA EPD's website under the Stormwater section. Once this is complete, you will need to keep a signed copy of the NOI along with the proof of submittal and any fee forms on site. Again, make sure you have a signed copy. A NOI without a signature will not be accepted.
2. Copy of the Erosion Sedimentation & Pollution Control Plan (ESPCP)
Every construction site in the state of Georgia that requires coverage under the NPDES General Permit calls for an Erosion Sedimentation & Pollution Control Plan (ESPCP). An approved copy of this plan needs to be on site at all times. If you prefer to keep a copy in your truck, make sure that you have an additional approved copy that can stay on the job site. Inspectors need to be able to access the plans during non-working hours, holidays, and rain days as well. Also, make sure that you redline your plans as your jobsite changes. For instance, if you move a stockpile of dirt from one area of the job to another, make sure these changes are reflected on the plan. Use a red pen to show the new location of the stockpile and sign and date it to complete the update. But remember, any time you are making changes to BMPs that have a hydraulic capacity (ponds, inlets, etc.) you can't use the redline process. These changes need to be made by a design professional and approved by the local issuing authority and/or the State.
3. Design Professional Inspection Report (Seven Day Letter)
Once all of your perimeter BMPs, construction exits, and initial sediment ponds are in, you have seven days to schedule an inspection with the design professional who prepared the ESPCP. After this inspection is complete, you will need to retain a copy of this inspection in your logbook. This is a crucial, and often overlooked, step in the NPDES process.
4. Water Quality Monitoring Information
Your job site needs to be sampled at two different times during the course of construction, 1) at the completion of clearing and grubbing, and 2) after all mass grading is complete or 90 days after the first sample was taken. If at any point your samples return deficient results, you will need to continue sampling with each 0.5" rain event until you have readings within your allowable limits. These results will need to be submitted to the EPD via certified mail with return receipt and retained on site. Be sure to keep signed copies of the sampling results along with your receipts from the postal service.
5. Site Inspection Reports
All inspection reports will need to be kept on site at all times. Remember, there are three different types of inspections that occur for any given site. 1) Daily Inspections: These will cover fuel storage areas, construction exits, and a measurement of the daily rainfall. 2) Weekly / Post Rainfall Inspections: These inspections will look at all BMPs, outfalls, and any areas that have not undergone final stabilization. 3) Monthly Inspections: This inspection focuses on all areas of the site that have reached final stabilization.
6. Violation Summary
When an inspection of any kind results in the discovery of a violation, you are required to make note of it in two separate places, 1) in the inspection report that revealed the violation, and 2) in the Violation Summary section of your log book. The EPD also asks that these violations be reported to them within 14 days of discovery. Keep in mind that not every deficiency on site is a violation. Check out the EPDs Enforcement Actions for a few examples of what constitutes a violation.
7. Rainfall Data
It is essential to be aware of how much rain you receive on your job site. The EPD requires that you measure rainfall in 24-hour periods and keep the data in your logbook. Try and check the rain gauge at the same time every day in order to get an accurate representation of what's really going on your site. Make it part of your routine first thing in the morning and ensure that you're staying in compliance with this area of the permit.
Records Retention
The NPDES General Permit requires that all records related to the construction site be retained at the permittee's primary place of business for at least three years from the date of the Notice of Termination (NOT). This period may also be extended by request of the EPD at any time.
Now that you know, there's no excuse for not keeping your site up to date at all times. Remember, the permit box is the first place your inspector is trained to go when they enter your site. In their eyes, a well-kept logbook usually means a well-kept construction site.
—Article submitted by Jason Hand, May 2013—


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I've heard people describe San Juan as Puerto Rico's little brother. What's actually the difference?
- How is the game-play changed?
- Is it any easier to teach new people?
- Is it worth buying if I already have Puerto Rico?
I've heard people describe San Juan as Puerto Rico's little brother. What's actually the difference?
While the games are thematically the same, and San Juan was designed as the "card game version" of Puerto Rico, the gameplay is actually quite different.
San Juan is definitely easier to teach to new players, though I wouldn't say massively so. However, it is much easier to teach how to play well than is Puerto Rico, and so is more forgiving.
I absolutely consider it to be worth buying. If it's like any game, it's really most like Race for the Galaxy (see below for inside scoop), but a much lighter version. It's much faster to play than Puerto Rico, and is actually quite fun with just two players, something that can't really be said of Puerto Rico. The two games are so dissimilar in play style and feel, you'll never mistake one for the other in any way, even if you played them back-to-back.
Just a short bit of gossip about San Juan and Race for the Galaxy: the story goes that when Alea Games saw the (comparatively) great success of Puerto Rico, they started hinting around that they were interested in a card game version. One submission was a game very much like Race for the Galaxy, though many years earlier. The Race-like game wasn't selected as the winner, but the eventual game, San Juan, turned out to have incredible similarities, including the cards-as-resources, cards-as-money, and cards-for-their-face-function game concepts. Whether any ideas were copied or not, in the end Race needed a fair bit of redesign to make it less like what San Juan turned out to be.
One is played with cards (SJ) and one is played on a board (PR). San Juan is certainly easier to teach and far faster to play (not to mention setup). It's a quick fun game. It's still rich in strategy in the way that Puerto Rico is, but, it lacks some of the complexity, depth, and nail-biting-ness that I've found in a good Puerto Rico game. Oh, for a list of discussion threads on BGG that have gone over this, see here.
The only thing these games have in common is the artwork, theme, publisher and role selection mechanic. Alhough with similar themes (building your infrastructure and producing and selling goods), most of the game mechanics are completely different. Basically:
So answers to your questions:
P.S. They are both really good games, just really different.
San Juan takes a couple of the concepts from Puerto Rico: building assets that then provide points and resources or some other benefit, and per-turn role-picking, and implements them in a card game with similar imagery and item names to Puerto Rico. Aside from the 5 role tokens, San Juan is 100% cards.
The closest I've come to playing Puerto Rico was about three turns on BSW, but it is definitely a much more complex game than San Juan. In addition to building structures, you have to manage placement of workers on them. If I understand correctly, produced resources can't be turned immediately into new buildings or workers, but must be shipped off first, shipping be another mechanic not found in San Juan. I'm guessing there are more differences, but as I said I haven't played a full game of Puerto Rico yet.
To boil it down, San Juan is a simple card game, and Puerto Rico is a (very?) complex board game.


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Thanks to Antonios for posting the above video onto YouTube. It's a CNN Showbiz clip from 1992 about Brian De Palma's Raising Cain, and it features interviews with De Palma and his wife at the time, Gale Anne Hurd, who produced the film. The pair brought the film in more than one million dollars under its $12 million budget, De Palma having gone extravagant on the film he made at Warner Bros. immediately beforehand, The Bonfire Of The Vanities. In the above video, De Palma tells CNN's Jim Moret, "It's sometimes an artistic challenge to work within limitations, as opposed to having all the money in the world to do anything."
A lot of discussion in the video is about how De Palma mixes satire with horror in Raising Cain, using humor as a set-up for springing a shock on the viewer. De Palma also attempts to separate his movies from those of Alfred Hitchcock. "Even my thrillers, I mean, most people want to compare me to him. They're very much me, and very much my sensibility. And what I find similar in Hitchcock is his incredible visual sense in telling stories. And that's something anybody can learn from."
Indeed, you can see De Palma's sensibility from movie to movie. Look at the scene in The Bonfire Of The Vanities, how he highlights the ridiculous rationale behind Sherman taking his dog out for a walk in the rain (so that he can call his mistress on a payphone away from his wife), underlining the humor with the shot of the dog being dragged along the floor by his leash. That scene has a correlative in Raising Cain, when Jenny tells herself that she can't let Jack open Carter's gift, and sneaks out of the house underneath her husband's nose in the middle of the night to sneak into Jack's hotel room. That ridiculous notion (what really would be the harm in Jack opening that gift?) is simply a rationale for disaster, and although it happens in a dream this time (Jenny's dream logic?), you get the sense that an equally ridiculous notion would happen with Jenny when it comes to Jack either way, as long as it ultimately gets her into his bed. Although the Bonfire scene (and in particular the shot of the dog mentioned above) is played a bit more broadly for a definite laugh, the scene in Raising Cain might not seem so funny until the second time you watch it, after you know everything that has and hasn't happened-- it's one of those scenes CNN's Moret might have been thinking of when he tells De Palma he may have felt uncomfortable laughing, not knowing whether or not something was meant to be funny. De Palma assures him it was-- that's the De Palma sensibility.
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April 17, 2003
Kagan Owens
Report Documents Safer Schools That Protect Children From Unnecessary Pesticide Exposure
(Washington, DC - April 17, 2003) In a report released today, schools from across the country document a growing trend to adopt safer practices that dramatically reduce pesticides in the schools, providing children with a healthier learning environment, according to the authors. With descriptions of 27 school districts of all sizes from 19 states, the report, Safer Schools: Achieving a Healthy Learning Environment Through Integrated Pest Management, describes a growing commitment to adopt practices that respond to mounting evidence that pesticides pose a public health hazard while non-toxic, economically feasible pest management options are available. Spearheaded by the School Pesticide Reform Coalition and Beyond Pesticides and written by a broad group of individuals representing advocacy groups, state agencies, pest control companies, and school staff, the groups say the report will help encourage schools, states, and the federal government to put in place safer pest management programs for schools and communities nationwide.
Safer Schools is the first report of its kind to document the actual strategies schools use to decrease pesticide use while implementing more effective pest management strategies. The case studies highlighted represent a range of program sizes from the three largest school districts in the continental U.S. (New York City Public Schools, Los Angeles Unified School District, and Chicago Public Schools), to individual schools like Lewis Cass Technical High School in Detroit, Michigan.
Many people assume that schools are environmentally safe places for children to learn. It often takes a pesticide poisoning, repeated illnesses or a strong advocate to alert a school district to the acute and chronic adverse health effects of pesticides and the viability of safer pest management strategies. Schools that have chosen to adopt such strategies, such as an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program, use alternatives to the prevailing chemical-intensive practices because of the health risk such practices pose to children and other school users.
"Understanding how these programs take shape and the approaches used by schools and districts, as well as hurdles they had to overcome, is key to the broader adoption of successful programs across the nation," according to Kagan Owens, program director for Beyond Pesticides, a Washington-based information and advocacy group. There are many success stories around the country that, like the 27 case studies included in Safer Schools, show that IPM significantly reduces and, in some cases, eliminates the amount of pesticides used; is cost effective; and, yields better pest control results.
IPM is an approach that has been implemented in various communities, schools, and government facilities for decades. Although there are no federal laws regarding school pesticide use and pest management, there is pending federal legislation, the School Environment Protection Act (SEPA), which has been introduced in Congress and adopted by the U.S. Senate twice. There are also 13 state laws and 320 local policies, according to Beyond Pesticides' report, Are School Making the Grade, National PTA and American Public Health Association resolutions, and numerous government and non-governmental organization resources that focus on the adoption of school IPM programs, all of which can be found at www.beyondpesticides.org/schools.
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further exemplifies the fact that school districts nationwide should be
required to adopt an IPM policy and program in order to make sure that
all students and school staff are protected from the unnecessary use of
hazardous chemicals," said Ms. Owens, a co-author of Safer Schools
who also coordinates the School Pesticide Reform Coalition, a network
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parents and school staff need to ensure their implementation," Ms.
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The vulnerability of infants and children to the harmful effects of pesticides
has attracted national attention over the last decade. EPA and the National
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that pesticides pose to children. Children face higher risks than adults
from pesticide exposure due to their small size, tendency to place their
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Hard copies of the report are available for $5.00 each by contacting Beyond Pesticides at 202-543-5450 or [email protected].
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Case study
Rupa BK
Rupa BK is 24 years old, and lives in a remote village in Jumla District, Nepal with her husband, Chandra (28 years old), two sons (10 and 4 years old) and daughter (8 years old). Chandra works as a carpenter and mason and spends most of his time away from home. Rupa and her husband have recently separated from her in-laws, who live a few kilometres away. The three children attend a government school which is located within the village. Rupa herself has studied up to the 5th grade (primary level).
Like most women from dalit households, Rupa's paid work is sporadic and mainly consists of wage work. During the farming season, she works as an agricultural labourer, carrying manure in others' fields within the village and in nearby villages. She also occasionally sells firewood and carries apples to the market. Since the village is not accessible by motor vehicles, Rupa carries the firewood and apples on her back to the market which takes more than an hour. In addition, she does non-agricultural wage work, such as carrying stones, whenever it is available within and around the village. Out of her paid activities, Rupa finds working on the farm extremely difficult. For the vast majority of her paid work, she does not receive any other benefits in addition to her wages, although she does get one hour's rest while doing construction-related work. She thinks she cannot argue for better benefits such as rest or leave as it might endanger her employment.
When I work for others, how could I ask for rest in the middle of work! They [the employers] would say that they pay us, and to return home [because of sickness/tiredness] early would not be good.
Rupa does most of the care tasks at home by herself. Her eldest son sometimes helps with fetching water as the drinking water tap is nearby, but he stays with his grandparents most of the time. Chandra only helps with the care tasks when Rupa is ill or menstruating. Chandra himself admits that while he occasionally helps with tasks such as taking care of livestock and fetching water, he does not like to do the care tasks inside the home. He asks for help from a neighbourhood relative who comes and helps with cooking and cleaning. Rupa's mother-in-law helps with childcare when Rupa is sick or doing paid work since there is no childcare provision within the community.
Whenever she is on her periods, one sister from nearby comes to help out at home. I don't know how to cook, I haven't done it till now. Sometimes I even stay hungry. Sometimes, when my wife is away or during menstruation I go to my mother's house to eat. I can't cook at all, I can't do it. I could have done if I tried but I am lazy to do it. I don't even feel like trying to learn cooking. Sometimes when I cook, I put excess salt or something else. It is awful so I don't feel like cooking. - Chandra BK
Rupa also seems to have internalised gendered norms and accepts the gendered division of labour:
Our job is to plant and till. I cannot tell my husband to do such things. The things I am supposed to do, I should do them.
Rupa started working once her youngest son started going to school. Because of the low-wage and sporadic nature of work, her income is just enough to buy stationery for the children. The family has to depend on Chandra's income for other expenses, whose employment is also irregular. On the one hand, single-handed responsibility for care tasks makes it difficult for Rupa to invest more time and effort in paid work. On the other, lack of decent and regular paid work opportunities, low income and drudgery result in a greater burden and fewer benefits. Despite this, she feels her income is important to meet household expenses. The drudgery of both Rupa's paid work and care work leads to adverse physical impacts. She suffers from body ache and has to miss out on work and income when she is unable to go:
If I feel pain on my body, if I cannot work at all, then I stay home. If not, I have to go there even if I feel difficult. If I stay at home, then I cannot earn anything.
Both Rupa and Chandra are of the opinion that redistribution of care work among family members would help reduce her burden. While Rupa expects more help from her children once they grow older, Chandra realises he could do a lot more to help reduce his wife's workload, although strict gendered norms make it difficult to make that happen:


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The exotic-looking Ocicat stops people in their tracks and steals their hearts. An impressive muscular spotted cat with the look of the wild, the Ocicat is a man-made domestic cat that adds a touch of the exotic to your home. They are powerful cats that look ready to stalk their prey at any second-their toy mouse, that is! The jungle look with the amenable personality of the domestic, these spotted cats never fail to make an impact with all who meet them.
Virginia Daly (Dalai) created the Ocicat by accident in 1964 when she was trying to develop a Siamese with points the same color as an Abyssinian. She bred a ruddy Abyssinian male carrying cinnamon named Dalai Deta Tim of Selene to a large seal point Siamese female named Dalai Tomboy Patter. The resulting kittens were all phenotypically Abyssinian and she kept a female from the litter that she named Dalai She. Virginia Daly bred Dalai She to a chocolate point Siamese named Whitehead Elegante Sun. That litter included the expected Siamese with Abyssinian points. She repeated the breeding and this time there was a surprise-a lovely ivory kitten with golden spots that she named Tonga. Her daughter declared he looked just like an Ocelot and wanted to call him an Ocicat-thus the new breed was named. However, a new breed was not the goal and so Tonga was neutered and placed in a loving pet home.
Corresponding with noted geneticist Dr. Clyde Keeler, Mrs. Daly mentioned Tonga. He replied saying he was interested in working with breeders to produce a cat similar to the extinct Egyptian Spotted Fishing Cat and suggested Tonga be bred back to his mother. While Tonga could not be used, Virginia Daly repeated the breeding and produced a tawny spotted male she named Dalai Dotson for use in the new project. The next step was to introduce the American Shorthair to the mix for the boning and substance-and to introduce silver. In 1966, she became the sole supporter of an elderly aunt and the Ocicat had to wait until the early 1980s. Other breeders also became fascinated by the spotted cats and developed new lines. Eventually the breed moved forward and TICA granted the Ocicat championship status in August 1986.
The Ocicat may look wild but it is absolutely devoted to its family. They are confident cats and are outgoing with visitors, eagerly checking out the chance for a game or a lap to curl up on. They are bright cats and will quickly learn to play fetch-but beware, they love their toys and can be possessive of them playing tug-of-war If you try to take them away. They are full of energy and their powerful grace easily lets them leap to high places. They are adaptable cats who easily learn the household rules however their social nature means they are unhappy if left alone for long periods. A busy active household suits them to a T.
The Ocicat comes in one pattern, spotted, but a number of different colors: Brown (Black), Chocolate, Cinnamon, Blue, Lilac and Fawn plus the silver version of these colors. The rich shades resemble the rich tones of the jungle cats and the shimmering silvers add a touch of glamour. The large thumb-shaped spots cover the body and are arranged in a classic bull's eye pattern. Occasionally, a full classic tabby will appear, but these are ineligible for competition. Each hair has several bands of ticking.
The mature Ocicat is a large cat with a powerful, sleek semi-foreign body of solid muscle dressed in a short, tight spotted coat. The athletic males weigh between 9 and 14 pounds and the graceful females 6 and 9 pounds. The large almond-shaped eyes are angled slightly adding to the cat's exotic look. The legs are medium in length with a solid feel to them to support the lithe, athletic body. Overall, the impression is of a cat ready to spring into action.
Ocicats have low maintenance coats and is kept in top condition by running a rubber brush over it weekly to remove the dead hairs and then a polish with a chamois to add some shine. If you decide to bathe your cat, use a bronze-tone shampoo for brown, chocolate and cinnamon spotted tabbies; a pearl-tone shampoo for blue, lilac and fawn cats; and a whitening shampoo for silver Ocicats. These shampoos highlight the vivid tones of your cat.
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Billy Wilder more or less launched the hard-boiled mainstream of Film Noir with 1944's Double Indemnity. He returned to the form several times, developing his particular brand of Viennese cynicism. The relentlessly misanthropic Ace in the Hole was a conspicuous box office failure. It shattered Wilder's winning streak at Paramount while irritating the columnists and opinion-makers of the day. Directors like Joseph Losey, Cy Endfield and John Berry were blacklisted and ostracized after making pictures like The Prowler, Try and Get Me! and He Ran All the Way, and Ace in the Hole is nastier than any of them. Even celebrated Oscar winner Billy Wilder felt the heat as he watched Paramount sneak his movie out as The Big Carnival, a name that has stuck to the film until now. Around Paramount's Gower Street lot, Ace was facetiously referred to as Ass in the Wringer. Ace in the Hole is probably the ultimate in intelligent Hollywood cynicism. Wilder and co-scripters Walter Newman and Lesser Samuels envision a world where selfishness and greed prevail. Unscrupulous is too positive a word for Kirk Douglas's Chuck Tatum, an opportunist's opportunist who takes advantage of an accident to create a maelstrom of self-benefit. Ace in the Hole has been established as one of the first manifestations of the modern Media Circus concept. Nathanael West's caustic The Day of the Locust predates it, but that book limited its misanthropy to the madness of Hollywood. Billy Wilder's poisonous satire can apply to any misuse of public power that erodes human values. By saying that rat racers like Tatum easily circumvent notions of honesty and ethics, the movie becomes a blanket condemnation of humanity. Ace in the Hole announces its gritty intentions with its title sequence, which plays out against a nondescript patch of desert dirt. When not inside the 'haunted' mountain, the movie's gray-on-gray look reminds us of Italian Neorealism. The exteriors have the appearance of a documentary. The pious elder Minosas are often seen in images that resemble Depression-era blight or immigrant hardship. The victims of Chuck Tatum's scheme -- the hundreds of tourist suckers represented by the gullible Ferderber family -- are like voracious insects, crowding the landscape with their cars and flocking to the amusement park rides. Tatum's media circus snowballs as other opportunist 'vultures' exploit Leo's plight. The tourists want breakfast and lunch and need to be entertained while waiting out the ordeal. Chuck monopolizes the only access to the core of the story, an arrangement he manipulates to his needs. The pounding of the drill and the pounding of Hugo Friedhofer's dirge-like music score seem to be happening only in Chuck Tatum's head. In the film's most despairing image, a trainload of fresh necrophiles spills out onto the desert and hurries to join the carnival, like demons in the The Night on Bald Mountain episode of Fantasia. They rush to buy copies of a vapid country-western record called, "We're Coming Leo". Even the arts rush to cash in on the man in the hole. The Escudero disaster galvanizes Chuck the way war news brings joy to the hearts of politicians and arms dealers. Chuck backs up his smart mouth with his fists, slapping a deputy (Sam Fuller's Sgt. Rock, Gene Evans). He threatens a sheriff and gets away with it. The more venal are Chuck's proposals, the more success he has. When power-hungry people are motivated behind a really rotten idea, nothing is impossible. Wilder's dark viewpoint is not only unrelenting, it's unrelentingly unrelenting. Chuck Tatum is Shakesperian in his hubris and barely suppressed malice, and Kirk Douglas' tendency to overact only makes him seem more real. Chuck divides the world into two groups, himself and his "fans." His steady string of nervy one-liners is proof that the sick joke was alive and well way before standup comics hijacked the notion of civility. Chuck shocks the nice office lady by purring that he "could do wonders with her dismembered body." The poor schlubs that can't follow Tatum's sense of humor remain our only hope that the human race is worth saving. In this picture, Square is Good. The movie's brutality is also physical. Kirk Douglas savagely slaps Jan Sterling, and his giant fist grabs her hair in a shot that might be the beginning of a rough sex scene. A reputation for sadism would dog Billy Wilder from this point forward, especially when critics claimed to be offended by his roughing-up of adored actresses like Jean Arthur, Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine. The never-miss Wilder judgment seems to have slipped in Ace in the Hole. Wilder thought audiences would like Chuck Tatum because other people in the film, especially the sheriff and his editor in New York, were even worse specimens. Wilder gives Chuck a full character arc, allowing him to repent of his sins and, when he cannot reverse the evil he's done, maneuvering himself into the role of martyr. I think 1951 audiences tuned out of the story as soon as Chuck kicked his scheme into gear and purposely endangered Leo. There's nobody to root for. Meanwhile, the price of parking at the Escudero circus climbs by the hour. Wilder spends an hour rubbing our noses in the idea that People Are No Damn Good (alternate: Capitalism is Evil). I'll bet that word of mouth was terrible and the public simply disengaged from the film. Nobody likes to be told that their middle name is Scum. Wilder isn't exactly subtle, either. Chuck's quote of the title phrase coincides with his dropping of a cigarette butt into a glass of beer, equating poor Leo with excrement. Born masochist Lorraine responds to Chuck's fancy insults by throwing herself at him. "Kneeling bags my nylons" is beautiful in its outrage but far too harsh to be believed. By the time that Chuck must fetch a priest in case Last Rites are needed, Wilder's 'fun ride' of cynicism has burnt itself out. The creepy stopover to pick up the priest is either pretentiously arty, or inspired cosmic Americana. A handful of barrio kids converge on the cop car like Martians investigating an alien artifact. Ace in the Hole is about guts. Chuck punches his stomach to illustrate the concept of "human interest," the sleazy focus of his talent. And the movie's second half is truly gut wrenching. A helpless anxiety sets in as the clock runs out on Leo, a feeling that earth's energies are being turned to its own destruction. The world is a big noisy carnival of alluring distractions, and while crowds dance some guy in a hole is calling for help. Society's capacity for pity becomes a ghoulish deathwatch. Do we buy Chuck's conversion to a human being, or does Chuck's rage simply turn in on itself, like a mad dog? The conclusion is too devastating to merely shock, although its calculation points to a need on Wilder's part to really sock it to us: Chuck's nasty verbal joke at his own expense, the perfect-to-the-inch alignment of the final 'accidental' composition. Perhaps Andrew Sarris was right when he stated that, "Wilder is too cynical to believe his own cynicism." But Ace in the Hole is a searing artistic statement from a director who could have easily have made a mint with hollow Ernst Lubitsch imitations. It's also far more consistent than socially conscious noirs like Try and Get Me! and The Well, which dilute their hard content with sentiment or liberal preaching. Wilder made movies the way he collected art, with his instinct and his intellect. The failure of Ace in the Hole to find an audience sent him scrambling back to guaranteed laugh-getting crowd pleasers ... with his unique strain of sarcastic humanism, of course. 1 Criterion's DVD of Ace in the Hole looks great in a very good B&W transfer. Most of the audio is good too, but a couple of scenes have a tiny bit of distortion, as if some duplicate element had to be sourced. Nothing too alarming. The main disc has a commentary by Neil Sinyard that covers most of the general facts about the film quite well. The film's accurate but unappealing trailer mainly shows unhappy people yelling at one another. The short list of extras offer quality prime source material. The main attraction is critic Michel Ciment's Wilder interview docu Portrait of a "60% Perfect Man": Billy Wilder. It was filmed in 1980 but carries a 1998 copyright. There are other documentary movies about Wilder but this one is bright and fast, and uncluttered with unnecessary film clips. Kirk Douglas appears in a friendly-enough 1984 interview that isn't all that informative, and we also get a look at a 1986 Wilder talk session at the AFI. Very welcome are some audio interview excerpts from co-writer Walter Newman, who talks about problems with the story and an original opening logo that incorporated a close-up of a rattlesnake. It had to be deleted because the studio thought it might frighten pregnant women. Spike Lee appears in a brief afterword expressing his admiration for the movie. A stills gallery rounds out the disc contents. A text insert has essays by Molly Haskell and Guy Maddin, and has been printed in the form of a fold-out tabloid newspaper. It even has an ad for the County Rattlesnake festival!
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General Linda Bond was delighted to accept £50,000 (approximately $77,000) from the United Kingdom Territory with the Republic of Ireland to support the continuing expansion of Salvation Army ministry in Africa. The money was raised through ISB120, a successful series of meetings held in London in 2011 to mark the 120th anniversary of the International Staff Band of The Salvation Army.
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And here's a follow-up to the dramatic scandal at Olympus, which we've been following on this program. It's one of Japan's most respected corporations - or it was. Now executives Olympus are facing criminal charges and prison sentences. The company may be delisted from the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and may also go bankrupt. All this after revelations of dubious acquisitions and allegations of massive accounting fraud. From Tokyo, Lucy Craft has more.
LUCY CRAFT, BYLINE: Olympus Corporation has been in business for almost a century. And while not as famous overseas as Toyota, Sony or Nintendo, until recently, no company seemed to more perfectly embody its own name. In one way or another, Olympus products reach nearly every Japanese citizen. While its digital cameras are losing ground, the company has carved out a reputation for technical excellence in medical equipment. So when news broke that for 20 years, Olympus executives had been cooking the books - that the company may be in hock for over a billion dollars - Christina Ahmadjian, who studies corporate governance in Japan, couldn't believe her ears.
CHRISTINA AHMADJIAN: Complete shock. It just didn't compute that the reputation of Olympus has been such a high quality, good, responsible company, that hearing this just did not compute at all.
CRAFT: Japanese police and financial regulators are still sorting out the mess. But observers say it all began in the mid-1980s. Olympus began to founder after moves to weaken the dollar suddenly made Japanese exports less competitive. Anxious to beef up its bottom line, Olympus followed the crowd, according to Shuhei Abe, president of the Sparx Group hedge fund.
SHUHEI ABE: They went into what they called zaitech. That is financially investing their idle cash to make up their slowing down earnings.
CRAFT: And this was quite common among many...
ABE: It was very common. Everyone did it and if you didn't do it, management was considered to be a bit outdated.
CRAFT: But when Japan's bubble economy burst, and later, when finance regulators tightened rules on accounting, Olympus didn't do what most other Japanese companies did; it never came clean on its losses, choosing instead to hide its mistakes with a series of overpriced acquisitions using Cayman Islands-based companies.
The Olympus scandal has reinvigorated the debate over Japan's corporate governance. Most companies in the world's third-largest economy have refused to put independent directors on their boards.
Koji Aiba, of Tokyo's Waseda University, says the lack of oversight allows a Japanese CEO to ignore his shareholders with impunity.
KOJI AIBA: He picks the board members from his subordinates and he has the power to shuffle the board member. And when he goes to the shareholder meeting he already has a proxy of more than 50 percent in his hands, so he doesn't really have to care.
CRAFT: The insider mentality at Olympus is reminiscent also of Tokyo Electric Power, whose Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant became the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Christina Ahmadjian says the overriding instinct at such firms is to hide mistakes at all costs.
AHMADJIAN: The sense that we must be loyal to our predecessors, that we can't blow the whistle, we can't criticize because of these bonds of loyalty are very similar, that's very Japanese culture.
CRAFT: Japan has been moving towards better disclosure in recent years. The Olympus debacle, which has put Japanese corporate governance under global scrutiny, won't transform standards overnight, but is widely expected to at least hasten moves toward reform. For NPR News, this is Lucy Craft, in Tokyo. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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text: I was then a graduate student in toxicology at the University of Stockholm and the idea of an end of "time" was certainly not something that had been part of my education. I started to wonder if there indeed existed a higher purpose to life and felt that the native cultures of Mexico was pointing me in that direction. Nonetheless, it took me a few more years until I started noticing that there was a steady stream of synchronicities guiding me to do explore this culture more deeply. In 1986 I took up work at the Department of Environmental Health at the University of Washington in Seattle, which brought me closer to the Mayan area with possibilities of frequent visits to their area. More importantly, through the experience of the Harmonic Convergence I realized that I was not the only one to believe that there was a truth to the Mayan calendar. Nonetheless, most of my energy was put into my professional life as a cancer researcher, where I focused on developing means for identifying toxic substances in the environment and especially such that could be cancer causing. Research that I performed in China came to have wide ranging consequences and I was among other things asked to serve as an expert for the branch of the World Health Organization that focuses on cancer. My parallel interest in the Mayan calendar was however growing stronger and as I returned to Sweden from the United States in 1993, I decided to start working full time to solve these age old thought structures and to understand what they were really all about. After twenty years in the laboratory this was obviously not the best way of having job security, but it seemed to me that it would be of greater value to humanity if I could solve the Mayan calendar than if I could solve the riddle of cancer. Given my scientific background I then set out to find proofs of real events that matched the energy shifts of this calendar. Hence, my approach became different from the more newagy students who approached the calendar through channeling information. My first inroad to some tangible link with the Mayan calendar was really provided by my knowledge of Swedish history, which turned out to match certain baktun shifts extremely well. I then self-published a short book in Swedish, Mayahypotesen (1994), which already discussed the importance of the upcoming Venus Transits that I had been called to bring to the world at Orcas Island a few years earlier. Following these first real observations I studied vaster and vaster areas of cosmic life that was found to fit into the framework of the Mayan calendar and I spent a few years, 1993-1996, essentially researching all fields of science from its perspective. This was a very exciting and intellectually stimulating time when one thing would lead to another at a very high pace and it was probably the most creative time in my life. Yet, I could not find a publisher for my initial manuscript, the Theory of Everything, that summarized all my findings and it has been on my shelf ever since providing myself with the source material for my later books. Meanwhile, I started to lecture and publish articles in a number of languages about the Mayan calendar essentially only in Sweden and some other Nordic countries. In 1998 Hunbatz Men invited me to be one of the main speakers at a conference about the Mayan calendar in Merida, Yucatan, and the ceremonies and a trip into Honduras inspired me to start writing a new, more widely accessible book, The Mayan calendar, as I got back, which was eventually published by Garev in 2001. Having completed this book my interest in Eastern philosophies increased and I went to Golden City in India to see Sri Bhagavan the first time in the year 2002. In 2004 Bear and Co published a new book, The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness just in the nick of time for the Oneness Celebration, June 6-8, 2004 which was the first celebration in a very long time that based on the traditional Mayan calendar brought together a world wide participation of spiritual people seeking a deeper guidance into the time ahead. Following this I began lecturing and having courses on a larger international scale, especially as the book wasw now being translated to several other languages, and by now I have visited some twenty countries with my message. Recently, I filmed some interviews with Don Alejandro Oxlaj, head of the council of elders of the Maya, together with a team in India and I can see a wider unity and consensus coming about based on the true Mayan calendar than has been the case previously. I still live in Orsa, Sweden, at the edge of the wilderness, but I never seem to know where I will be called next. Carl Johan Calleman I was born in Stockholm, Sweden at noon May 15, 1950, which in the Sacred Calendar corresponds to the day 5 Jaguar. Curiously this is also the exact midpoint of the month dedicated to the Roman goddess Maia. Stockholm is fairly remote from the jungles of Guatemala, but these were some signs that maybe I had something to do there (although of course I was only appreciate the importance of these signs at a much later point). I first became interested in the Maya and their calendar during a trip to Mexico and Guatemala in 1979. I fell in love with this people, and also had a feeling that this was my spiritual home on earth. Somehow it seemed that the purpose of my life was linked to this people and their calendar, that I had become fascinated by. This was long before the Mayan calendar had become a matter of widespread and as I read in Michael Coe's book about the Maya that their calendar would come to an end in the year 2011 it sparked a deep wonder in me."Why would a calendar end?" I asked myself although 2011 then seemed a long time into the future. |


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NEW: Passengers preparing for New Year's Eve festivities
NEW: It will take at least a day for the weather to improve
NEW: Helicopter can pick up 12 passengers at a time
NEW: Barge will ferry them from Chinese ship to Australian vessel
As the 74 people on a climate change research ship stuck in the ice in Antarctica readied for New Year's Eve festivities, authorities revealed plans to send in a rescue helicopter.
The Russian-flagged MV Akademik Shokalskiy has not moved in a week since getting stuck in unusually thick ice on Christmas. The people on board say they are holding up fairly well.
"The group on this ship is incredibly collegiate," said Alok Jha, a science correspondent for The Guardian newspaper, told Anderson Cooper 360. "There are a lot of skills and things people are sharing with each other."
Chris Turney, an Australian professor of climate change at the University of New South Wales, said there are regular briefings on the status of rescue attempts, and in the meantime, people are doing what they can to keep busy. That includes yoga and Spanish classes, Jha and Turney said.
Turney said it was raining hard Monday, and visibility was deteriorating. The forecast for the next 24 hours called for more of the same.
Officials said a helicopter from a nearby Chinese ship will be used in the airlift, but rescuers must wait for conditions to improve.
In preparation, crew members of the Akademik Shokalskiy have marked a spot on the ice where the helicopter can land, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said.
The helicopter, which can transport 12 people each trip, will take the ship's 52 passengers – who include the research team and journalists – to the Chinese icebreaker Xue Long. An Australian icebreaker, which tried unsuccessfully to reach the research vessel, will send a barge to pick them up.
The 22 crew members of the Akademik Shokalskiy will stay aboard, the maritime agency said.
"People are sort of seeing the end in sight and just keeping morale up," Turney told CNN. "It's New Year's Eve tonight, so there are all sorts of plans." That includes the singing of an original song written by one of the passengers and dancing, Jha said.
And there may be good spirits – both emotional and alcoholic, Jha and Turney said.
The Akademik Shokalskiy passengers said it wasn't a bad place to be stuck. The scenery is beautiful. Penguins have been walking up to the ship and sniffing around, checking out their new neighbors.
Close, but no rescue
The expedition to gauge the effects of climate change on the region began on November 27. The second and current leg of the trip started on December 8 and was scheduled to conclude with a return to New Zealand on January 4.
The vessel got stuck in the ice 15 days after setting out on the second leg.
Turney said the ship was surrounded by ice up to nearly 10 feet (3 meters) thick.
It was about 100 nautical miles east of the French base Dumont D'Urville, which is about 1,500 nautical miles south of Hobart, Tasmania.
On Christmas morning, the ship sent a satellite distress signal after conditions failed to clear.
The Australian icebreaker Aurora Australis suspended efforts early Monday to reach the expedition because of bad weather. The ship got within 10 nautical miles but then turned back.
The attempt by the Australian icebreaker followed one by the Xue Long, or Snow Dragon, which was six nautical miles from the trapped vessel when it couldn't get any closer because of the ice.
It returned to open water and remained in the area to provide support, said Andrea Hayward-Maher, a spokeswoman for the maritime authority.
CNN's Josh Levs and Jamie Crawford contributed to this report.


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Why would someone board an ocean liner to go nowhere? People do not pay for the pleasure of sitting on a motionless plane or inside a stationary car – not intentionally anyway – so what makes a ship any different? The concept of the floating hotel has always been slightly contradictory but there are floating hotels and then there is the QE2. Other than the Titanic, she may just be the most famous liner in history. Retired a decade ago after sailing further than any other ship – almost six million nautical miles in almost 40 years navigating the globe – the QE2 has returned to stationary service in the UAE. If you want a different view, you will need to cross the deck and swap the tranquil Arabian Gulf waters for the soaring Dubai skyline. The QE2 is late on in life for such a radical career change but, lovingly restored, the hope is that the blend of British heritage and Dubai service will prove a hit. The Queen Elizabeth 2, to give the ship her full title, was proudly launched in 1967 from the Clyde dockyards by Her Majesty as the ultimate flagship of the Cunard fleet. With her graceful curves and contemporary interiors, she breathed new life and style into ocean travel at a time when airlines were threatening to take over completely.
When she arrived in New York in May 1969 on her maiden voyage from Southampton, it was like a rock star had arrived. State governor Nelson Rockefeller came on board as she sailed past the Statue of Liberty to fireworks and a military fly-past as the champagne flowed. One thousand bottles were on board for every return crossing. The QE2 was the ship for the swinging '60s.The stewards wore turtlenecks, the waitresses in the coffee shop mini-skirts. "Ships have been boring long enough," was the slogan she sailed by. The stars descended upon her – David Bowie, Elton John, Neil Diamond, James Cagney, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor all spent time aboard. Speedier than her larger transatlantic contemporaries, she could plough across the Atlantic in a comfortable five days. The ship's co-designer, James Gardner, compared her functional elegance to that of a Bentley at sea. She was a cruiser as well as a liner, and on one trip around the West Indies in 1971, she had to come to the aid of the stricken SS Antilles, which was on fire off the coast of Mustique, and rescued its 500 passengers and crew. In 1982 the QE2 was temporarily turned into a troop carrier to ferry servicemen to the Falklands during the conflict with Argentina. But as the adventures on the high seas continued, the tide was turning against Cunard and with the company losing money, the QE2's fortunes began to ebb. In 1992 she ran aground off Martha's Vineyard and 575 passengers had to be evacuated. Two years later a Christmas cruise had to be cancelled and the passengers returned to land after the ship failed fire-and-safety inspections. She battled on to break Cunard's record for the longest-serving transatlantic liner but by 2008, the writing was on the wall and the impending introduction of stringent new safety requirements, which she would have failed by a distance, was the final nail in the coffin. After 1,429 voyages, carrying almost 2.5m passengers, the QE2's time as an ocean-going liner was up. As the Cunard flag was lowered at the completion of her final two-week cruise in September of that year, the QE2's foghorn sounded 39 times, one for each year of service. It was the end of an era. Passengers and crew alike were in tears.
But there was life in the old liner yet. The Dubai government had bought her for US$100m with the aim of turning her into an opulent hotel on Palm Jumeirah, but the global financial crisis put plans on hold. In 2009 there was talk of sailing her to Cape Town to house fans at the following year's football World Cup. Liverpool and London were raised as possible homes, then Victoria Harbour. Finally though, behind the scenes, came movement. The original grandiose plans were reconfigured, her dock at Mina Rashid was made a permanent home and, 2.7 million man hours of painstaking restoration work later, the QE2 threw open her doors again in April 2018. There was trepidation amongst traditionalists but the initial reviews have been overwhelmingly positive. QE2 enthusiast and former passenger Alex Tarry, and his wife Naomi, were one of the first to try her out. "I cannot imagine a better outcome for QE2, in our opinion she is in great hands," he said. "Most of her beautiful features appear to be present and correct, including her distinctive smell, which brings back all kinds of wonderful memories." The refurbishment bill is considerably more than the US$40m it cost to build her but it has been worth it. The look and, just as importantly, the timeless feel remains intact. Even the The Queen's Grill's flavours are the same, with the restaurant offering a tasting menu featuring dishes that were available on the ship's maiden voyage, eaten with the original cutlery. Partially re-opened at present, there will be a full all-singing, all-dancing launch in October when all 13 bars and restaurants will be open for business. Her latest refit, like all her previous regenerations, has brought tweaks – this time with a local flavour. The UAE flag flies on board while alongside the portraits of a youthful Queen Elizabeth 2 and Samuel Cunard hang images of Dubai's rulers. The Yacht Club serves shisha on its terrace. While the US and UK are an obvious target market for the one-time transatlantic liner, her owners PCFC Hotels – part of the Dubai Government's Ports, Customs and Free Zones Corporation – report significant local interest too. "It has taken a lot of passion and over 2.7 million man hours to restore her to former glory," says Hamza Mustafa, the CEO of PCFC Hotels. "Our challenge was to walk the fine line between modernising her infrastructure without losing the charm and design aesthetics. This has taken some creativity – like recreating her original carpet designs – but overall we're extremely proud of what we have achieved. "We have hosted a number of passengers now who have had a fantastic experience onboard – and those who had stayed on her during her sailing years have been enamoured with the results." But while this new addition to the Dubai hospitality market might appear a shot across the bows of the competition, the reality is a little different. "The QE2 complements rather than competes," explains Mustafa. "We fully expect tourists to Dubai to split their time between a more traditional beach or city hotel followed by a few nights onboard – discovering the history of the QE2 and all that she has to offer." While all that points to a harmonious arrangement, one thing is for certain: while onboard the QE2, guests will be set for a special experience. The 224 rooms have been brought up to date with flat-screen TVs and mobile phone key access. The accommodation ranges from snug standard cabins, initially priced at US$135 per night, to the two sprawling Royal suites – Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary – which are offered on an invitation-only basis. If you are not on the VVIP list then you can always take the Captain's Cabin and live like one of the 25 men to captain the ship – albeit minus the adventure on the high seas. There is nostalgia in that of course and some may prefer to remember her in her ocean-going prime. But, in her new guise, she retains a unique presence that offers something different to Dubai's tourism landscape. The QE2's days at sea may have gone, but it's true what they say… style never goes out of fashion. Words: Neil Squires


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Tuesday 3 January 2012
New year, gingerbread Christmas tree and haggis tacos
As I was about to start making haggis, Paula dropped in to invite us to come and make gingerbread with them. I was already running late and had to push on with dinner. But we agreed to come over and help while the haggis cooked. The recipe was a simple one that started with the melting of butter, golden syrup and brown sugar. It is one of my favourite smells.
Paula then suggested we use my set of five star biscuit cutters. I ran back and fetched them. We helped cut the stars - I was impressed with Paula's way of doing it which I have included in the recipe at the end of the post. I was even more impressed later on in the evening when she brought us one of the gingerbread Christmas trees that she had made by stacking biscuits with icing between each biscuit and placing a star on top (see photo at top of post).
More amazing still was that this "gingerbread" didn't have any spices in it. Paula and family follow a diet free of spices. The heady combination of butter, golden syrup and brown sugar imparted so much of the gingerbread flavour, that I never noticed the lack of spices. We really enjoyed them. Paula found that thicker icing made it easier to stick the gingerbread stars together but I liked the first tree she made with the icing dripping down it, making the tree look snowy and festive.
Now my aim for next Christmas is to make different sized lebkuchen stars and stick them together with chocolate ad finish with a light snow shower of icing sugar and some sparkles. Stay tuned.
Meanwhile, I continued with experimenting with ways to eat haggis. My favourite way is in nachos. Given that I loved the Scotch-Mex fusion, I thought I would try haggis tacos. I had meant to make a haggis chilli non carne but ran out of time. Instead I added a generous shake of smoked salt, smoked paprika, ground chillis and cinnamon and quarter to half a spoon of cumin and chilli paste of half a batch of haggis. Served in taco shells with grated cheese, tomato salsa, guacamole, lettuce and yoghurt, it was excellent.
I went even further the following night when we still had some haggis over. I added some kidney beans and salsa to the haggis and mixed with rice. Served with a topping of chopped capsicum, lettuce, grated cheese and yoghurt, it was every bit as good as the following night.
It is an odd world where Scottish and Mexican cuisines fuse perfectly and gingerbread is great without ginger but you can't argue with it if it works so well.
Previously on Green Gourmet Giraffe:
This time last year: On being a vegetarian
This time two years ago: Potluck in Prinny Park
This time three years ago: New Year's Feasting
This time four years ago: Still life with fruit and fudge (NYE pt 1)
Rebecca's gingerless gingerbread
From Sue Dengate's The Failsafe Cookbook: reducing food chemicals for calm happy families
125g butter or margarine
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup golden syrup
3 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 egg
3 cups plain flour (Paula used spelt)
lemon citric icing
Melt butter or margarine with brown sugar and golden syrup. When slightly cooled, stir in egg and bicarb. Stir in flour until mixture comes together into a dough. Knead briefly. Paula then rolls out to no more than 0.5cm (she says any thicker doesn't work so well) on a piece of baking paper. She cuts the biscuits using cutters and removes the dough from around the shapes. The baking paper now just has the shapes to be cooked and can be placed on a baking tray. Bake at 180 C for 15 minutes. When cooled ice with lemon citric icing (icing sugar, citric acid and water, or use lemon juice instead of citric acid if food intolerances are not a problem). Stacking star shapes in a tree shape using icing to sandwich them together is optional.
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17 comments:
Why have I never thought of veggie haggis nacho's??? Hubby is strictly the meat haggis but I am sure if I served him veggie haggis nacho's he'd be more than happy to scoff the lot.
How lovely to have neighbours to pop by and share kitchen antics with too!!! Would never happen in my neck of the woods I am afraid. Lovely gingerbread tree too ;0)Oh you are so full of splendid ideas. We've a tin of vegetarian haggis in the cupboard and although I'm very sure it won't be nearly as nice as yours, I think I shall do something with it for supper and serve with nacho chips. The non-gingerbread tree looks very impressive and now I'm really looking forward to seeing your version next year.
I'm sure I've said it already, but Happy New Year :-0What a lovely New Year's Eve tradition - just the sort of quiet but meaningful celebrations that appeal to me. I also like the look of that gingerbread tree, although am intrigued by the lack of spice (it's hard to believe it wouldn't be missed!). I will also tuck away that method of cutting out cookie shapes for future use, it sounds very sensible.
Happy New Year!Thanks Katie - I am sure you would make a wonderful gingerbread christmas tree - look forward to when you make one
Thanks Hazel - haggis is great whereever mince works - but esp in tacos and nachos
Thanks Chele - I got the idea for haggis nachos from the Last Drop pub in the grassmarket - which used to be close to our place - highly recommend you try them there or at home
Thanks Choclette - how lovely to have a tin of veggie haggis in the cupboard - good luck with serving it - corn chips and haggis goes so well together
Thanks Lisa - who would have guessed it!
Thanks Cakelaw - hope you do get around to making one of these trees - they are great
Thanks Anh - it is lovely
Thanks Ricki - hope 2012 is your year of the haggis - really it is a great meat substitute
Thanks Kari - "quiet but meaningful" is exactly the way I would love to describe my new years eve - it is weird that the gingerbread was so good without spices but it made me think about what really makes a good gingerbread and I think it is more than the spices
Thanks Hannah - you spent new years eve eating cheese? and you know they say you are what you eat - ha ha! seriously I bet they weren't the plastic cheese you get ready sliced - great cheese is a beautiful thing!
Thanks Liz - I remember how much I love mexican food every now and again - and I spend too much time forgetting it too :-)
Thanks Joanne - yep seems gingerbread isn't just about the ginger
Thanks Charlie - it is very easy to make veg haggis at home - but I wouldn't recommend trying the meat variety at home - it just looks like minced meat for all that effort!
Thanks Lorraine - it is nice to have neighbours to spend time with and drop over to visit - it is quite a while since I have had the pleasure so I appreciate it
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(The initial "W" comes from George Cruikshank's Comic Alphabet)]
William Cobbett famously called London "the great Wen," though in the early 1820s he had a seed-farm and plant-nursery just where Kensington High Street tube station is now. How would he have felt about the citys massive expansion in the Victorian age? Yet this was also when it became a great world city, the hub of empire and of Western culture. Rosemary Ashton and Lee Jackson both convey something of its extraordinary buzz at this time, but in very different ways. Ashton focuses on John Chapman, the radical publisher (no relation of Edward Chapman of nearby Chapman and Halls), at his home and business premises on the Strand; while Lee Jackson juxtaposes snippets from a variety of diaries, journals, memoirs and so on to give a first-hand feel of what daily life was really like in the metropolis then. Both books are a treat for the enthusiast, but the specialist will be particularly grateful for Ashtons insights into the intellectual milieu and ideological maelstrom of the late 1840s and early 1850s, and the crosscurrents which fed into these from the most progressive thinkers in America and Europe.
As well as being Londons main shopping street, the Strand was still the centre of the newspaper and magazine publishing industry when Chapman, son of a Nottinghamshire chemist, relocated to it in 1847. In this most richly historic of all London settings, the one-time apprentice watchmaker and medical student not only published controversial books and The Westminster Review with its heterogeneous stable of outspoken contributors, but ran a ménage as unorthodox as his opinions, with his long-suffering older wife Susannah having to put up with a series of female lodgers who, like the governess/mistress already a part of their household, were far more his equal in intellect. The best known of both his professional and personal relationships was with Marian Evans, the rising star who would be better known later as George Eliot, with the result that the one earlier book on Chapman is by Eliots biographer and the editor of her standard Letters, Gordon S. Haight. Ashton has uncovered much more about Chapman than her predecessor, both in his role as Eliots early mentor and a facilitator of revolutions in thought, and as a personality in his own rightan unfaithful husband, admittedly, but "an individual of extraordinary enterprise and persistence" (299).
The bookjacket of of Rosemary Jacksons 142 Strand: A Radical Address in Victorian London. [Click on thumbnail for larger image.]
In Chapter 1 ("Adventurous Publishing: Emerson, Strauss, Newman [1844-8]"), Ashton explains that Chapman was a freethinker well before his arrival in the Strand. He had taken over a bookselling business near St Pauls from a Unitarian and Transcendentalist called John Green, having first sought Green out with a view to publishing his own short philosophical work on human nature (in the end, he brought out the book himself). As part of Greens business, Chapman also took over the distribution of his American list, including works by his own particular hero Emerson, who would later make 142 Strand his London base. Had Chapman done nothing else but promote Emerson, he would still have been important: it is well known, for example, that it was the "presence of Emerson with his simple, unobtrusive manner and his cool paganism" (44) that pushed Clough into abandoning his career at Oxford in 1848. This was the year in which Chapman became Putnams London agent, an arrangement which, he announced in the Publishers Circular, put him in a "most advantageous position to execute orders in every department of American Literature with the greatest promptitude, and on the most favourable terms" (47). By 1849 Chapman had 140 books on his list, most of them still reissues of American books. But Marian Evans had also come into his life by then, and he had published her translation of The Life of Jesus, David Freidrich Strausss highly controversial attack on Biblical authority, in 1846. More sensations were to come. Ashtons second chapter deals with the furore surrounding J.A. Froudes Nemesis of Faith in 1849, and also shows how various the face of Victorian radicalism was, with people like Carlyle, Frank Newman, G.H. Lewes, Charles Kingsley, James and Harriet Martineau and many more all revolving in Chapmans orbit. He was in an ideal position now to embark on a further publishing venture, and Chapter 3 moves on to 1851, when he took over from William Edward Hickson a journal originally founded by Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill: The Westminster Review. To the disgust of Chapmans wife and mistress alike, an admiring Marian Evans became his first editorial assistant. As the biographer of both Eliot and Lewes, Ashton is ideally qualified to deal with this period of Chapmans life, when (for example) he published Herbert Spencers Social Statistics (1851), and managed to get Mill himself to contribute to the October 1852 issue of the Review. Now, "by the causes he took up, the books he published, the authors he enabled," Chapman was really "making changes happen in the intellectual life of Britain" (xiii).
One of Chapmans causes is dealt with in Chapter 4, "Radical Reviewing and the Battle of the Booksellers (1851-2)." The Booksellers Association had clamped down on trade discounts, and, when Chapman contended that this did not apply to his American list, encouraged a boycott of him. Chapmans pamphlet, Cheap Books, and How to Get Them, takes a strong stand on free trade in books, something which he hoped would benefit the readers as well as himself. This won him the support of Gladstone, Dickens and many other big names. But his success in this particular cause hardly improved his own financial situation, and he was reduced to serving customers in his own bookshop. Ashtons next two chapters detail his valiant struggles to keep the Review afloat and uncompromised, against pressures from within and without. Although he was forced to vacate 142 Strand in 1854, Chapman continued to edit it for another forty years, right up until his death. By then this tall, striking and always energetic man had taken up medicine again and moved to Paris. Ashtons concluding chapters (7 and 8, "Chapmans Radical Women" and "Dr Chapman and Friends" respectively) have their own interest, particularly as the former included, over the years, not only George Eliot herself but her younger friends Bessie Rayner Parkes (author of Remarks on the Education of Girls and the activist Barbara Leigh Smith (later Barbara Bodichon). For some readers, indeed, the chief interest of the book will be in the new entries it gives into George Eliots life and circle.
However, the most stimulating and valuable part of Chapmans own life was clearly his time at 142 Strand, when he resided "right at the heart of literary, journalistic and publishing London, taking on innovative writers and offering a number of important Victorian thinkers the start they required" (298). Considering his youth (he was only in his late twenties and early thirties then) and unpromising background, it is quite remarkable that he could hold his own with, and provide a platform for, the most original thinkers of the age; and if he took advantage of his supporters, sometimes financially and sometimes in other ways, he performed great services in return. This is how Ashton sums up what he achieved with The Westminster Review:
He made [it] what it had been under Bentham and Mills in the years leading up to the Reform Act of 1832a leading journal carrying strong articles by clever writersbut he added to its importance by broadening its base. His writers were not only Utilitarians and philosophical radicals working for political reform, but also Unitarians, agnostics, evolutionists, social reformers, writers with progressive opinions in religion, philosophy, social science, medicine, education, and public health. Early feminists like Bessie Rayner Parkes and Barbara Leigh Smith were given publicity by Chapman, as were social theorists like Comte, Combe, and Spencer. Strauss and Feuerbach reached an English-speaking audience through his publication of Marian Evanss translations of their works. Emerson, too, first found a British readership through Chapman. And Marian Evans herself, so important as Chapmans helper in the early years, in turn owed him her start in a career in which she became distinguished as the novelist George Eliot. [298]
As Ashton herself adds, his life is yet another example "of what could be done in the Victorian period, when rapid changes were going forward, and a man like Chapman was able, despite the obstacles, to make a difference" (299).
Sometimes it seems anything was possible in the London of that time, a feeling clearly shared by Lee Jackson, author of some popular Victorian murder mysteries, creator of the Victorian London website, and now compiler of the Dictionary of Victorian London. This pleasingly pocket-sized anthology earns its title by adopting the straightforward alphabetical organisation of Charles Dickens Jrs original Dictionary of London (1879), and reflects the capitals amazing diversity. Starting appropriately enough with "A is for Advertising" (an 1887 cartoon from Punch about the "nuisance" of billboard advertising, showing that the age of mass media was already upon us), it picks its way through all sorts of highways and little-known byways to reach, inevitably, the Zoological Gardens. These are shown through the eyes of Mrs J.E. Panton, an elderly Edwardian lady who recalls having been almost attacked by an escaped orang-utan on one of her childhood visits. Whatever its dangers, that was an era, she recalls regretfully, when Fellows of the Royal Zoological Society were more discriminating about who received the famous green entry tickets. Nowadays, Mrs Panton explains, "Council School children, and brats of that ilk" are able to enter and "disport themselves in the sacred spot on Sundays" (321). Here is a good example of the democratisation of leisure during the long Victorian ageas well as the class barriers it had needed to overcome!
The bookjacket of of Lee Jacksonns Dictionary of Victorian London.
[Click on thumbnail for larger image.]
In between its A and Z, this is a sundae of a book, a rattlebag to dip into and reflect upon. Here are "Drinking Fountains" and "Driving" side by side, for instance, the former excerpted form the original dictionary itself, and mentioning "Baroness Burdett Couttss beautiful fountains in Victoria-park" (still there today, elaborate as ever, under the protection of English Heritage); the latter taken from an 1896 issue of The Leisure Hour, in which W.J. Gordon complains of the congested roads, especially "the blocks at the Street corners," and warns of the risk to the drivers wrist of the "hard, dead pull of the reins" (78-9). Neither bottlenecks nor RSI are anything new then; indeed, RSI has its very own entry here, with a piece on telegraph clerks taken from another journal called The Graphic. Even the South Banks London Eye is a throw-back, for there is an entry for its predecessor at Earls Court, the gigantic late-Victorian ferris wheel visible "anywhere west of London" and said to have been a huge draw during exhibition times (112).* Meanwhile, a glance down the "narrow, evil-smelling courts and alleys" of the less salubrious parts of the town reveals many for whom a carriage ride, let alone an amusement ride, was an irrelevance (281). And, for all the efforts of the movers and shakers, such paradoxes persisted: the entry on Street Arabs, too, is taken from an account written during the last decade of the reign.
A Dictionary of Victorian London is primarily a taster, but it also has some appendices which offer useful leads to the Victorian specialist. The Note on Sources, for example, reveals that that nostalgic and snooty-sounding Edwardian lady, Mrs Panton, was the daughter of the artist William Frith. The social historian is well served by notes on Victorian currency, wages, budgets and housing, which supplement a variety of statistics among the entries themselves, on quantities of particular foodstuffs sold at the Great Exhibition, categories and numbers of London tradespeople, infant mortality rates for west London, and so forth. More specific bibliographical details would have been useful (most of the letters to The Times, for example, are identified only by year, so anyone wishing to follow them up would have to resort to the Times index). But even the specialist is likely to find some surprises here, and to rejoice in Jacksons showcasing of this fascinating city in all its daily ferment of contradictions and extravagances.
*This in turn was modelled on the original ferris wheel built by the engineer George W.G. Ferris Jr. for the Chicago Worlds Fair of 1893. See "Circus and Theme Park Innovations." Viewed 17 December 2006.
Ashton, Rosemary. 142 Strand: A Radical Address in Victorian London. London: Chatto & Windus, 2006. 386 + xiv pp. £20.00. ISBN 0 7011 7370 X (from January 2007, ISBN 13 9780701173708).
Jackson, Lee. A Dictionary of Victorian London: An A-Z of the Great Metropolis. London: Anthem Press, 2006. 338 + xiii pp. £12.99. ISBN 1 84331 230 1.
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